Chapter 4

You put the pedal to the metal and flew rapidly. But the Giant Nevermore was easily twice as fast as you and no matter how hard you flapped your wings it closed the distance bit by ever large fucking bit.

The bunny girl on your back made it all the harder to pull anything either. The small squeals of fear she let out tugged on your heartstrings...if you had any left. You hope you do actually.

Regardless, there wasn't much you could do here. And it wasn't even interested in you, it was after the girl. You could just drop her and be safe.

But again, fuck that!

You'd just have to put all the training and experience you gained over the years to use.

"Aa-ah?" the bunny girl stuttered in confusion as your tail wound up and wrapped around her midsection and held her tightly against your back. "W-what are you doing?"

You didn't answer her and slowed down, allowing the Giant Nevermore to close the rest of the distance rapidly and catch up.

You heard it screech behind you and looked over your shoulder in time to see it evening out about to spear into the girl and your back with its massive beak.

If you could grin through your bone mask, you would.

You flared your wings hard and spun yourself into the air with all your might and the Giant Nevermore hit nothing but air as the force behind your wings flung you spiralling up and over the giant grimm.

You evened out of your spin and filled your claws with aura and slashed into its neck with all your might, gripping for all you were worth. It screeched so loudly you wouldn't be surprised if any nearby windows shattered and the squeals of fear the bunny girl on your back unleashed were all but drowned out by it.

The Giant Nevermore halted in mid air and began to wildly buck and flap its giant wwings trying to throw you off. But you held strong and flared your own wings out, releasing a barrage of quilled feathers enhanced by your aura. And then unleashed another volley.

Even still, with each of them piercing into its back around the neck it just wouldn't go down!

'Fucking die!' you roared and let loose a third and final barrage of razor sharp aura enhanced qills.

Only then, did it finally go limp underneath you and begin falling out of the air.

Panting deeply, you pushed yourself off its back with a flap of your wings and and took off into the air above it. You eyed its giant corpse dissolving into smoke as it fell.

'Holy fuck, how did I win that?' you gaped stupidly. These wing quills of yours are fucking overpowered!

"Ah what is this?" bunny girl gasped when the black smoke swerved up and sunk into your body as you began to fly away and continue on your way to the sound of gunfire.

You marvelled silently at the ability to bounce between moods this kid had. Maybe it's a bunny thing?

Thankfully, in the couple of minutes that it took you to reach your destination, no more grimm came flying out of the sky trying to kill the little girl on your back.

You landed on top of a building overlooking the street with all the fighting. It was littered with corpses, both Grimm and human alike. Hell, there were a couple of Goliath's down and out too.

To your disappointment though, none of the Grimm corpses began to dissolve rapidly and get absorbed by your semblance. Looks like you need to be the one to actually kill them for your new ability to work.

How unlucky, with the amount of Grimm here, you'd shoot up rapidly in strength. It was hard to judge, but already you felt like you were multiple times stronger than when you first ended in amongst all this shit. And you felt like you'd grown a little bit as well. You definitely felt a little bigger, and there was a beowolf corpse beside you that wasn't much bigger than you now. And considering you were like half the size of one before...it said a lot.

Either way, the only ones on the street that were of the human variety were a bunch for Atlesian Soldiers. Weirdly enough, there was a bunch of robots that were torn apart by them as well.

Not that you really cared.

You waited until they cleared out the rest of the Grimm on the street before leaping down from the building you were perched atop.

You lifted her off your back with your tail, finding it noticeably easier than you thought it would be and sitting her down on the ground.

"..ah, are you leaving now Griffy?" she looked up at you with tear filled eyes.

You nodded your head and she started sobbing. Cute kid that she was, it didn't want to make you smack her one for it despite how annoying you'd usually find it. She lunged forward and wrapped her tiny arms around one of your front legs and hugged you tightly.

"T-thanks for s-saving me." she sobbed lightly.

You sighed. Then, deciding to try and comfort her a bit, you lowered your head and rubbed the furry bit of your neck not covered by bone against her and released the closest thing to a purr as you were able.

An idea came to mind. Birds could imitate human speech to a degree right?You tensed your throat and tried with all your might. "G0o0o." you rumbled.

She pulled back and looked at you wide eyed, "You can talk." she smiled cutely.

You rolled your eyes again and nudged her gently towards the Atlesian soldiers, before turning on your heel and beating your wings, preparing to fly away before they saw you and decided to blow you away like the rest of the Grimm.

"Thanks for saving me Griffy!" you heard her shout from beneath you as you took off into the air, and looking over your shoulder you could see her waving up at you happily, "My name's Velour Scarlatina! Thanks for everything! I'll never forget you!"

Well, that was nice. And at least she'd be safe now.